During the night, of the 22d General Sullivan's division completed the march, and from then until the close of the 26th the weary and bedraggled battalions kept steadily tiling into the White Plains camp. General Lee's division had the honor of bringing up the rear; and the time occupied on the march by this body, commanded by an officer of undoubted capacity (whatever may be said of him otherwise), may be taken as a fair indication of the extreme laboriousness of the army's progress. General Lee's command presumably started from the lower part of the county on the 22d, or at any rate not later than the morning of the 23d; it reached Tuckahoe early on the 24th,

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COUNTY.

;m«! «»n the 26th arrived in While Plains-- more than three days being Heath, required to cover a lesser distance than the division of General how in light marching order, had traversed in twelve hours. Lee, encamped were British the where section the evei-fiipon reaching (Scarsdalel, was apprehensive of attack, and by a forced niglll march lefl the Tnckahoe Uoad ami gained the Dobbs Kerry road, by which army lie proceeded the rest of the way. There was no pursuit of the Colonel even and City, York New in remaining by the British forces Lasher's little command of a few hundred men, which Washington had left at fori Independence as a guard for Kingsbridge, safely joined the main body at White Plains after being summoned to do so on